kandahar with a blessing of the egyptian president and the muslim brotherhood referring to the home city. and is that at the heart of this and demonstration that is we're seeing not only by the secularists and the moderates and christians, they're concerned what's going to happen to their freedoms? >> exactly. this draft constitution that's supposed to be voted on still on december the 15th is sharia friendly and i think people are worried that mohammed morsi has in mind what turkey's prime minister once said, democracy is like a street car. you ride it to the stop you want and then you get off. that's a pretty chilling prospect. >> chilling indeed and you can't do anything to prevent this? >> i think we should be leaning on morsi, publicly and privately to allow more time for a discussion to take place not to ram this thing through, but i think the real instrument where we have influence is the military and i hope we're implying it there to get the parties to avoid egypt falling into civil conflict. god forbid it ends up looking like what syria does now. >> connor powell, our reporter i